Explosives Engineering
| Author | Paul W. Cooper |
|---|---|
| Published | 1996 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Paul W. Cooper’s university-level engineering textbook on the physics and chemistry of explosives: thermochemistry, shock waves and detonation theory.
A Wiley-VCH textbook (1996) by Paul W. Cooper, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Its preface describes the field as drawing on chemistry, thermodynamics, shock physics and fluid mechanics, and the book is organised in parts that move from the thermochemistry of explosive materials, through the theory of shock waves in solids and fluids, to detonation and the interaction of detonation waves with other materials.
It is a standard academic and professional reference in the field and is written for engineering students and practitioners.
What it is: a published engineering textbook, in print. This copy is a scan with no text layer.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
476 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.